What if I told you that there is a way to keep scrolling without having some loud-mouth influencer telling you to stop it because it rots your brain? You just gotta substitute whatever that you're scrolling with the big brain version of it.
Enter clever science memes as per The Lighter Side Of Science, a Facebook group that’s all about science memes to give you an educated giggle and hopefully not rot your brain.
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So, there’s a Facebook group called The Lighter Side Of Science that prides itself in, predominantly, sharing memes that are lightly scientific and cool, all the while delivering a certain level of humor and relatability.
The group is actually a part of IFL Science and has roughly 741,000 members as of this listicle.
Their tongue is long and wraps around it's brain to protect it during high speed pecking..
Sadly, OP would have smelt of horse, not corpses.
For the record, it’s not all memes. There is community engagement going on in several ways, including IFL Science promoting its own articles and folks in the community themselves asking scientific questions and everyone else jumping on board and brainiacking this thing out.
Engaging to say the least.
Now, we won’t dive into what memes are and why they are such a big deal. The tl;dr of it is it’s become a means of communication and connectivity among folks all the while they’re popular because they’re relatable.
What we haven’t yet discussed is the scientific side of it all: how can they be educational and why would that matter?
Well, turns out, you can use memes that relate to the content at hand to teach folks something new.
Three main tactics are suggested for this, the first of which being dual coding. This one works when there is a visual and verbal component that ties in well with what you’re teaching and it ultimately strengthens student comprehension.
This makes me happy! Next thing will be a potato farm.
The other two are using concrete examples, i.e. memes are concrete examples of abstract and complicated ideas or concepts, and elaboration, which is using memes to connect students’ personal knowledge with real world observations.
The former is used to support the students’ understanding of the material, while the latter helps them dive deeper into analysis and elaboration.
RH: I can hold 3 bags, my phone, wallet and unlock the door! LH: Idk, I can hold the bread?
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Try knitting or crocheting. I've been crocheting for so many years (decades) that sometimes I just watch my hands doing complex interconnected motions with absolutely no conscious input. They're like little machines.
I'm left-handed and I've been knitting for 3 years (started late in life). Supposedly I knit 'right-handed' although I can't see it makes much difference.
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I did, starting at age 15 due to a Gallagher routine. At 61, my left hand does most tasks about 80% as well as my right and there are a few things that are done better by the left hand.
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The left holds a lot of shopping bags though. He pulls his weight in other ways.
As a southpaw, my right hand has learned a ton of stuff to cope in a right-handed world.
I don't know what you mean. I am left handed, but in school i was forcibly "re-educated" to write with my right hand. Hearing silent "whooooooa" when drawing graph with left hand while simultaneously writing the equation with right hand is still one of the fondest memories from uni.
Nah, my left hand does just as much, I'm ambidextrous. I'm better at writing backwards with my left hand, and like to do this nifty party trick (that impresses pretty much nobody) where I write forwards with the right hand and simultaneously backwards with my left. 😅
Lol 13 sitting in front of a mirror for hours on end. Yes I started as a lefty too. 👍🏻
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I'm ambisinstral and it does not apply to me. But, when I am cutting food at a meal I hold the knife in my right hand and for food prep/cooking I hold whatever blade I am using in my left.
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No I'm an ambidexterious person. I can write with both hands, one just isn't quite legible.
And presses the buttons on the other side of the controller
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Did you ever realize that the way your signature looks on one of those sign with your finger computer releases looks exactly like it would if you had a stroke
Both of my hands work. Somethings I do left, some right, and other things I've worked on so I can do items equally.
I've always thought of it as an aid to hold something steady, like a nail in the wall, for example, and to make a pair because my right hand is practically useless for anything else, lol.
Hi kids, let me tell you a story about a lovely condition we call Dyspraxia. Some of us don't have that all-knowing hand, meaning it is a constant struggle to hold that pesky pencil... But can be done with either hand with equal discomfort.
Just you wait til you see Felix Klieser playing the French horn with his feet!
DOminant hand is: elder child syndrome. Expected to be competent, capable, able to hit the ground running for the good of the family (body). Non-dominant: Golden child. Spoiled, doesn't have to work really but will be blatantly and obviously protected from injury or removal, okay just being 'pretty' because hey the nail polish doesn't chip so do it nice on that hand....etc. ... In short I guess ambidextrous sorts are the only healthy family body part dynamics out there XD
Nah, my left hand can write, draw, paint, grab lollies from my lolly bag in the car console, so it's not a lack of use from my left hand. Training and ambidextricity help.
Kind of, but my left hand does everything and then my right only knows how to write
I'm left-handed. When I was about 7yo, I was told left-handed children used to be forced to hold their pen/pencil in their right hand, and got smacked with a ruler if they used their left hand. That made me cry, just imagining it.
Nope. I taught my left hand to write and to be useful, otherwise its just hanging around doing much of nothing. Now, if I break my right hand the left one can step in and be of use.
So I am right handed, broke my right wrist. Left hand had no problem taking all tasks but signing my name. That's okay nobody minded the mess. Broken wrist healed, left hand said glad you're back and couldn't do anything on it's own again. Broke my left hand, 5th metacarpal and wrist bone right under it. Incapacitated 2 fingers. Right hand had no idea what to do without the left hand there to be it's backstop .. washing dishes, vacuuming, sweeping the floor, etc. When my right wrist was broken, I would put a plastic bag over my cast and wash dishes, hold wet cloth in right hand, use left hand to move the dish around until it was clean. Those 2 non-functioning fingers really made it hard to hold that wet dishcloth in the left hand.
There are things that my non-dominant left hand does better than my right hand, though. I think it's practice... I'm not the least bit ambidextrous, but the left hand isn't useless.
Some of my toes hate each other's guts. My big toe is afraid of the dark.
Some of us use both hands. Not fully ambidextrous. But while I write with my right hand, I do everything else with the left.
My left hand is better at opening cereal boxes and soda bottles. The right hand just keeps things in place while the left does all the work.
I'm ambidextrous but weirdly. I write with my right in two languages, but write with my left in another language. Sadly, no one believes me and they say I'm writing random stuff when I write with my left :(
Except my husband. Ambidextrous, and he swore no one ever tried to force him to be right handed. He just always had somethings he preferred to do right handed and somethings left handed, but he COULD do most of them with either hand. For instance, he wrote left handed, but used tools right handed.
He ate either way, depending on whether he sat next to a right handed or left handed person.
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I'm a lefty, so lately I'm kinda practising writing with the right hand just for the fun of it, even made a little journal and I'm getting used to use a pencil with my "wrong" hand lol
My poor left hand has been the recipient of lots of pain over the years. Even had a drill bit go through it :)
On me it's not so straightforward. One hand can do everything you learn till the age of 7, with every adult form of that (so hold a crayon and also an eyeliner) and another that's now stronger and dominant.
It's worse if you were born a naturally left handed and had one of those teachers that forced right hand usage, then you have a useless hand and an unskilled hand that can't make a smooth line.
I am right handed but do everything left handed except right. I wasn't taught this way and I don't consider myself ambidextrous, but brushing my teeth with my lefty feels like I'm a child.
What's weird is that the larger group "thinks" the smaller group is "wrong" and should be violently forced to switch so that everyone uses the same hand. Most of the world still does this.
Serves them right. They probably still have crickets in their home.
This in turn means that students can also engage with the material by explaining the memes that tie in with the topic and by creating them.
For the first one, students can be provided with appropriate memes or asked to source existing memes to explain how it connects to what they have learned in their own words.
Well done. For those not familiar with champagne: The French are very protective of that word. Only sparkling wine from that exact region is allowed to carry the word "champagne" on the bottle. For every other wine with bubbles "sparkling wine" has to be used. Or Crémant. Edit: The Crémant part is incorrect, explanation see below. Reason for mistake: I was lazy.
With the second, more hands-on one, students can be asked to create their own memes by finding pictures and coming up with captions that capture the idea of what they are studying.
The approaches to these can vary and it’s up to the teacher to find appropriate ways to deliver the material effectively.
Black hole's name is Maude and she sees the sandwich in your hand
The answer to this problem was to let us include publication cost in proposal budgets. Just now being added - clean up and disposal costs for the project. Next up - accepting the fact that grad students *are* part of the cost of conducting research. NSF and NIH continue to leave them off the budget template as if they are not.
Now, there are risks involved. For starters, there has to be a bit of guidance with what prior knowledge is retrieved in the kids’ minds that would be associated with the study material.
Another huge no-no is using memes that are not as accessible as others, i.e. blind kids can’t see visual memes and kids with zero pop culture awareness might not get some of the more popular ones.
But if you avoid inappropriate angles on memes, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Whatever the case, memes tend to stick with people because of their relatability and thus serves as a great way to approach learning new things. If anything, the kids should have a blast.
I worked with a paramedic in the 90s who always replied "dressed and vertical". There are many days in my life now where I use it because sometimes that's a major accomplishment.
We’d love to hear from you, lovely Pandas, so why not share some of your witty science facts or memes in the comments!
And if you’re hungry for more science, then Bored Panda’s got that covered too.
I, a professionally trained military photographer, forgot the word 'shutter' and called it the camera's 'blinky eye.' Thankfully, it was in front of my father and he only laughs at me for it all the time.
I like to think its more "We are finally as far away from the bears as we possibly can."
To be fair there are a lot of really freaky mutations in real life too. They're just not usually fun ones like XMen style mutations.
Imagine being a farmer and some people came and trampled on your crop for a silly photo.
Note: this post originally had 58 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
destineemya21, if you're going to copy every comment, wouldn't it be easier to copy/ past instead of re-typing everything?
Thanks Robertas! And a lot of Pandas really outdid themselves in the comments 🤣🤣🤣 thanks everyone!
Except destineemya21, who apparently has never had an original thought.
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destineemya21, if you're going to copy every comment, wouldn't it be easier to copy/ past instead of re-typing everything?
Thanks Robertas! And a lot of Pandas really outdid themselves in the comments 🤣🤣🤣 thanks everyone!
Except destineemya21, who apparently has never had an original thought.
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